1. Collaborative Portal for the IOOS Super-Regional Modeling Testbed Sara Graves, Manil Maskey, Ken Keiser Information Technology & Systems Center University of Alabama in Huntsville U.S. IOOS Super-Regional Modeling Testbed Annual All-Hands Meeting June 22, 2011

2. Collaborative Portal A reusable, extensible and customizable environment for managing contents Sharing Knowledge Advantages Involve people for collaboration Provide more effective ways to share (not just emails and chat) Control access Index and Search contents Categorize contents Persist user settings Save unfinished task Publish saved task

3. Testbed Collaborative Portal Features Private vs. Public views Group/Team based content categorization Individual dashboards Collaborative authoring ◦ Comments ◦ Forums ◦ Syndication feed

4. Testbed Collaborative Portal Features Groups Tools Search Library

5. Testbed Collaborative Portal Features

6. Testbed Collaborative Portal Role based views Public view Private view

7. Testbed Collaborative Portal Data Search OpenSearch interface to current Testbed catalog Map based interface Keyword based filtered search Advantage of integrated tools: ability to save/publish/share

8. Testbed Collaborative Portal THREDDS Browser/RAMADDA Interface Developed THREDDS Explorer to browse Model Output Provides OPeNDAP links to Model Output Developed RAMADDA catalog interface to search and discover

9. Collaborative Uses Collaboration platform allowing content to be retrieved and worked on by one or many authorized users. Collaboration platform Changes tracked and authorized before publishing contents. Other advanced forms of collaboration allow multiple users to modify (or comment) a page at the same time in a collaboration session. Centralized Web location (access) for all testbed resources. Lowering the technology barrier will foster many online collaborative science communities to bloom. Publish developed modules to Open Source Community.

10. Related Activities Catalog Discussion and Prototyping of Tools Evaluation of Catalog Service for Web (CSW) Catalog use case development Presentation to Internet2 Conference

11. Data Management Catalog Testbed Model Testbed Model Input 11 Production Model Production Model Metadata ingest services Portal Tools Portal Tools Search/Discover services TDS GI-Cat Output